Hello, I missed a bit of conversation. It was that kind of day at work.
Cloverfield fascinated me because it went in on the understanding that the viewer will very likely recognise everything that's going on, without having to be in the C&C bunker. When the medic starts screaming "Bite!" you know what's happening. I don't think they need to make a second one though. It's a novel idea, but that's its attraction for me. Novelty.
Ahh,
Farscape. Sci-fi on acid. And filmed in Oz! Plus, In Crighton's Brain Scorpius was fun. One of the moments in that show that sticks out for me is when Crighton is throwing some one-episode bad guy around the room, shouting "Who's your daddy? Who's your daddy? D'Argo, tell him who his daddy is!"
And D'Argo, who's standing off to one side with his arms folded across his chest, says, "
I'm your daddy."
Firefly: I own it. And the movie. There's a book of starmaps coming out for it, which I saw
an excellent preview of on i09. I'm trying to figure out a way to get someone to buy it for Christmas for me.
B5: Strangely, I never saw the fifth season. But this was because Channel 9 in Oz always bought all the sci-fi shows and then messed us around by irregularly showing them with starting times between 11pm and 12:30am on Thursday nights. Oh how I hated The Footy Show, which preceded it and was allowed to run as long it liked. But B5 provided several years of tremendous enjoyment to me and some of my friends. I still keep an eye out for JMS's comic work. His run on Spiderman is excellent, though I stopped at the convenient arc end-point of the Book of Ezekiel.
BSG: I've only seen up to the end of season 2. I'm still good with it. One day, I hope to see the rest. And why shouldn't robots be trying to find God? Weren't they made in the images of humans? (Okay, don't answer that, because I don't want to hear spoilers.) But a lot of people do seem to be a bit edgy about the direction it's taken.